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"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."

"When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going."

"I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce."
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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."

"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."

"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."

"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."
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